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   (CNN)A television station in small-town Virginia started getting   
   back to normal on Friday.   
      
   WDBJ sent a news crew to a high school football game Friday   
   night, the first live event the station has covered since a   
   reporter and cameraman were shot to death on the air Wednesday   
   morning.   
      
   The shooting victims, Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward,   
   were public faces in the tight-knit community of Roanoke, so the   
   killings were on everybody's mind as Northside High faced   
   Pulaski County in the season opener.   
      
   Fans observed a moment of silence before the game. Number 7's --   
   for the station's channel number -- were painted on the 30-yard-   
   lines of the football field.   
      
   Two police officers stood by as two WDBJ journalists did a quick   
   standup, but there were no problems. When the spot was finished,   
   the cameraman gave the reporter a quick hug and said, "Attagirl."   
      
   Identified with 9/11 attackers   
   Vester Lee Flanagan fired 17 rounds from a Glock pistol in   
   killing Parker, 24, and Ward, 27, and wounding the chamber of   
   commerce official Parker was interviewing, the Franklin County   
   Sheriff's Office said Friday in a press release.   
      
   Flanagan, 41, a disgruntled former station employee, identified   
   "with individuals who have committed domestic acts of violence   
   and mass murder, as well as the September 11, 2001 attacks on   
   the U.S.," investigators said, based on writings he sent to ABC   
   News and a search of his apartment.   
      
   Other details from the release: Investigators recovered two   
   handguns, both Glocks, from the rental vehicle Flanagan crashed   
   on I-66 in Fauquier County before killing himself. It appears he   
   acted alone. There's no evidence to indicate his destination   
   after the shooting.   
      
   The killing, investigators said, was "well-planned and   
   premeditated."   
      
   Clues were found inside the rental car, a Chevrolet Sonic.   
      
   Inside the subcompact four-door sedan -- a far cry from his   
   usual ride, a 2009 Ford Mustang -- police found a wig, a black   
   hat, a shawl, sunglasses and a to-do list. Police also found   
   three license plates.   
      
   Flanagan arranged to rent the car weeks before the shooting.   
      
   Victims shot in head   
   Parker and Ward suffered gunshot wounds to the head, the Roanoke   
   office of the chief medical examiner said Friday. Parker was   
   also shot in the chest, Ward in the torso.   
      
   Video later posted to social media sites belonging to Flanagan   
   shows the gunman approaching Parker and photographer Ward as the   
   reporter conducted a routine interview for a local story.   
      
   Ward's back is to the gunman. Parker is in profile, and the   
   interviewee is facing the gunman. The shooter appears to take   
   his time aiming the gun, presenting it and then withdrawing it,   
   before composing the angle of his video.   
      
   He opens fire on Parker first. Both Parker and the interview   
   subject scream, and the reporter is seen running away. It's   
   unclear if she had been wounded at that point.   
      
   Ward's camera briefly captured the shooter pointing the gun down   
   at him.   
      
   History of troubled mental state   
   The warning signs about Flanagan stretch back at least as far as   
   2000, 12 years before he was hired at -- and fired from -- WDBJ,   
   the Roanoke TV station where Parker and Ward worked. Flanagan   
   had difficulty with employers multiple times.   
      
    In 2000, he was fired from WTWC in Tallahassee, Florida. The   
   station said it was for "poor performance," "misbehavior with   
   regards to co-workers" and his "use of profanity on the   
   premises." Flanagan alleged a producer called him a "monkey,"   
   and because he complained, the station retaliated.   
      
   "He was very angry and troubled by a lot of things that had   
   happened to him at work," said Marie Mattox, the attorney who   
   represented him in a suit he filed against the station. "And I   
   was concerned about just his mental status and whether he needed   
   counseling."   
      
   CNN couldn't find any indication that he did. (The suit was   
   settled).   
      
    Flanagan bounced around to a number of news stations, landing   
   at WDBJ in Virginia in 2012. There, his records listed run-ins   
   with co-workers and said he was a poor performer, leading his   
   bosses to refer him to the company's employee assistance program.   
      
   "We made it mandatory that he seek help from our employee   
   assistance program. Many companies have them. They provide   
   counseling and other services, and we made it mandatory that he   
   do that," WDBJ's general manager Jeff Marks said.   
      
   The final warning for the reporter came in December 2012, and he   
   was fired in February 2013. Before police walked him out of the   
   building, Flanagan handed his manager a small wooden cross and   
   said, "You'll need this."   
      
   Earlier this summer, Flanagan was involved in a road rage   
   incident. Brandon Foster posted a video of the July 6 encounter   
   on YouTube after Wednesday's shooting. "I called this man out at   
   a red light for driving like a maniac," Foster said. "He then   
   followed me to my destination, driving recklessly, and stopping   
   traffic to continue the argument." There was no violence, and no   
   charges were filed.   
      
   • After the shooting Wednesday, Flanagan sent a disjointed 23-   
   page fax to ABC News chronicling what be perceived as grievances   
   dating back to first grade. He said he had been targeted his   
   whole life by white females and black males. He cited seemingly   
   innocuous comments as discriminatory, such as "an intern asking   
   where I would 'swing by' for lunch."   
      
   "The average person would not perceive those everyday comments   
   as insulting or injustices," said Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former   
   FBI profiler. "But clearly, he does. His belief system is so   
   rigid that there'd be no way you'd get through to him. No way."   
      
   Shooter's 23-page rant is filled with rage and praise   
      
   CNN's Elliot C. McLaughlin, Ben Brumfield, Ryan Nobles, Pamela   
   Brown, Jason Hanna, Ashley Fantz, Carol Costello, Brian Stelter,   
   Mariano Castillo, Drew Griffin and Patricia DiCarlo contributed   
   to this report.   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/us/virginia-shooting-wdbj-bryce-   
   williams-parker-adams/index.html   
      
   --   
   Illegal alien muslim Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy   
   caused by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black racist   
   supporters, to wave the flags for more gun control.   
                              
      
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